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Sappers serving with the 510 Field Company RE lay white tape over the ground to indicate cleared lanes through the battered village of Monts some 3 miles north-east of Villers-Bocage. A short distance away lie the remains of a Wehrmacht Mercedes 4 1/2-ton cargo half-track. Two engineers, one equipped with a mine detector, sweep a tree-lined lane while a 59th Recce. Regiment Daimler scout car waits to go forward. The enemy is encountered in the form of graves belonging to Waffen-SS troops who served with the headquarters staff of the 2nd Battalion, the 26th Panzer-Grenadier Regiment, 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend', until they were killed in action during June 1944. Their mission completed, three sappers return with a collection of defused Teller mines. A section of infantrymen from the 5th Battalion East Lancashire Fusiliers searches a deserted château for German stragglers. Two sappers probe a roadside verge for additional mines.

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